Top Projects 2016

Jul 29, 2016

The Vancouver Business Journal’s special Top Projects edition features each year’s most outstanding construction projects. This year’s collection of developments paints a robust and exciting picture of Southwest Washington’s business, transportation and residential growth.

This year’s Top Project is the Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s resort casino, ilani, a 368,000-square-foot facility that will feature 15 restaurants, bars and retail shops; a 100,000-square-foot gaming floor; and event space with seating up to 2,500 guests. Ilani, with a construction cost of $196,000,000, is also the largest commercial project that broke ground this year. The top public works project is the C-Tran Bus Rapid Transit project on Fourth Plain Boulevard. This project, at a construction cost $15,352,230, consists of 33 new bus stops and improvements throughout the most heavily used transit corridor in C-Tran’s system. The largest residential project this year is the second and third phases of Pleasant View Estates in Vancouver, with a total of 206 single family homes to be developed.

Other notable projects include the Sunlight Supply World Headquarters, a $26 million dollar consolidation of the Vancouver company’s facilities; both residential and commercial remodels of various historic buildings at the Fort Vancouver National Site West Barracks; and a zeitgeist of home and apartment building.

Top Projects Submission Guidelines

Top Projects accepts and publishes all commercial, public and residential projects for which a reasonable amount of information can be verified. Projects may be located in Clark, Cowlitz and Skamania counties and must have must have broken ground during the time specified in the year prior to the publication. We strive to maintain the highest level of accuracy, and we do not publish projects for which we cannot personally verify construction cost, general contractor, owner or construction start and end dates. Please visit www.vbjusa.com and click on Breaking Ground to submit your next project or to be sure you are on our email list when we call for submissions. Thank you!

COMMERCIAL PROJECTS

1. Ilani

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Developed by Salishan-Mohegan LLC in collaboration with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, ilani will be a premier gaming, dining, entertainment and meeting destination in Southwest Washington when completed in spring 2017. The 368,000-square-foot facility will have 15 restaurants, bars and retail shops; a 100,000-square-foot gaming floor with 2,500 slot machines, 75 table games, a high limit gaming room and VIP Lounge; and event space with seating for up to 2,500 guests.

Sunlight Supply is consolidating its five Southwest Washington Facilities into a single 306,000-square-foot building. The new space will feature 173,000 square feet of warehouse space, 80,000 square feet of office space, 49,000 square feet of manufacturing space, and 4,000 square feet of greenhouse space for testing and research. When complete, Sunlight Supply’s new world headquarters is expected to generate in excess of $17 million in wages and $19 million with local vendors annually.

Erickson Farms Phase 6 consists of six commercial buildings located in the Erickson Farms subdivision (known as Village Center) with 25,000 square feet of commercial space and 15,000 square feet of office/ loft space. The total value of the project is $12,000,000.

Fourth Plain Boulevard is the most heavily used transit corridor in C-TRAN’s system with over 6,000 daily trips that has resulted in a service that is often unreliable and overcrowded. The Vine will implement a modern, enhanced transit line along the Fourth Plain and Fort Vancouver Way corridors between downtown Vancouver and Westfield Vancouver Mall. The project consists of construction of 33 new bus stops, as well as traffic signal, storm, water, sewer and street improvements.

This project constructs a new drinking water treatment plant, including administration building with office, shop and process area; a roughing filter, filter gallery, slow sand filters and associated site improvements.

This project widens Northeast 94th Avenue from two lanes to three lanes and constructs bicycle lanes and sidewalks. The work includes intersection improvements at Padden Parkway and Northeast 94th Avenue including new traffic signals. Primary work includes construction of storm water collection treatment systems, sewer lines, water lines, surfacing, cement concrete curb, gutter and sidewalk, pavement markings and associated work.

This project site consists of five tax lots totaling about 88 acres of planned residential development. Sitework included grading the site for residential lots with associated streets, underground utilities and water facilities. A total of 206 lots are planned for this site.

The property is roughly 80 acres to be developed into 176 lots for single family homes. Project development will also include storm water detention facilities, new streets, underground utilities, trails and landscaped areas.

Alder Pointe Apartments is a 180-unit development located in Battle Ground, Wash. The complex contains three-story buildings with 24 units each; two-story buildings with garages below second-floor apartments; and dedicated garage buildings. Residents will have access to a central clubhouse housing a community room, a meeting room, a fitness center and an outdoor pool. The buildings are separated by ample landscaped areas with walking paths and a play structure to provide a park-like setting for residents.

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